Ebook {Epub PDF} A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton by Kate Colquhoun

Non-fiction writer. Kate Colquhoun is a biographer and historian. Her first book A Thing in Disguise: the visionary life of Joseph Paxton (Fourth Estate, ) was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper prize, nominated for the Samuel Johnson award and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Other books include Taste: the history of Britain through its cooking (Bloomsbury, ) and The Thrifty Cookbook: . A Thing in Disguise is Kate Colquhoun’s first book. Well written and easy to read, it includes two sections of colour photographs and a number of other illustrations, including a plan /5(41). Names like Gladstone and Disraeli, Dickens and Tennyson, spring to mind, but one of the greatest Victorian achievers was neither a politician (although he did serve as a Liberal MP later in life) nor a writer, but a gardener, Joseph Paxton, known to Norwood residents as the designer of the Crystal Palace. In her admirably succinct biography (the text runs to just pages and the rest consists of Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

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A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton pp. ISBN: Department of Genetic Architecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: exodesic@bltadwin.ru A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton. A Thing in Disguise.: A brilliantly conceived biography of Joseph Paxton, horticulturist to the Duke Duchess of Devonshire at. Names like Gladstone and Disraeli, Dickens and Tennyson, spring to mind, but one of the greatest Victorian achievers was neither a politician (although he did serve as a Liberal MP later in life) nor a writer, but a gardener, Joseph Paxton, known to Norwood residents as the designer of the Crystal Palace. In her admirably succinct biography (the text runs to just pages and the rest consists of notes, bibliography and an index) Kate Colquhoun tells the story of how a humble farm labourer.